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H. A. GIBSON.

GARDEN TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10.1915.

Patented Aug. 15,1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT enrich.

HENRY ADOLPHUS GIBSON, OF 'WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA, ASSIGNOR 'lOGLADYS UNA IVIURIEL GIBSON, OF l/VINNIPEG, CANADA.

GARDEN-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1916.

Application filed July 10, 1915. Serial No. 39,125.

one can quickly and effectively place a protective paper wrapper arounda transplanted plant, thereby protecting the plant from heat and coldand also guarding it, in its early development, against insects andworms.

Vith the above object in view the invention consists essentially in anopen ended cylindrical casing or holder fitted with a handle adapted toreceive a paper wrapper or covering and a hand operated sliding catchpiece carried by the holder, the parts being arranged and constructed ashereinafter more particularly described and later pointed out in theappended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing inwhich Figure 1 represents a side view of the tool with the catch pieceup. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the tool with the catch piece down.Fig. 3 represents a plan View of the tool.

shown in the position occupied in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a side view of thetool as it appears when in use, the parts having the position theyoccupy when the paper is pressed down into the ground. Fig. 6 is a sideview of the tool when in use with the catch piece forced down to catchthe paper. Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional view of the parts as theyappear in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 represents a sectional view through the paperwrapping as it ap pears embedded in the ground with the tool removed.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding partsin each figure.

1 represents an open ended cylindrical casing or holder and 2 representsa handle permanently secured such as by riveting, as indicated at 3, tothe sides of the holder.

4 represents a catch piece, in the present Fig. 4. is a verticalsectional. view through the holder, the parts being instance in the formof a stout wire, having two. downwardly extending legs 5 and (S whichterminate in foot pieces 5 and 6 and having the body portion thereofarched out wardly as shown at 7 to form a hand piece. The legs arearranged to pass down within the casing or holder to which they areslidably held by'means of pairs of straps 8 and 9, these straps-beingactually formed by making parallel cuts in the material of the holderand then depressing the cut portions lnwardly.

10 represents a casing or paper wrapping -of a cylindrical form, havingopen ends.

This wrapping is designed to pass over the holder in'the manner as shownin Figs. 5 6 and 7 of the drawing.

In utilizing the tool, the transplanted plant, as indicated at 11 isplanted in the ground, (seev Fig. 8). The catch piece a of the tool israised up to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 5 and the cylindricalpaper wrapper is then placed around the holder as shown in Fig. 5. Thelower edge of the paper is creased in around the lower edge of theholder as shown at 10, Fig. 7, and the holder with the paper wrapper isthen pressed into the ground around the plant, the paper being carriedinto the ground with the holder. The. catch piece a is then forced downso that the foot pieces catch the inturned end 10 of the paper wrapper,(see Fig. 7). The handle 2 is then raised while holding the catch piecedbwn, and is brought to the position shown in Fig. 7, where it will benoticed the lower end of the holder is above the ground line. Theattendant then puts his hand around the paper wrapper and raises thetool clear of the rapper, leaving the paper wrapper partially below theground and partially above the ground and surrounding the plant, asshown in Fig. 8. The tool, as is obvious, is purely for the purposeofplacing a protective wrapper around the plant. This wrapper protectsthe newly planted plant from the suns rays and also from the eX- tremeheat and cold, and it further protects the roots of the plant, to agreat extent, from worms and insects.

That I claim as my invention is 1. A device for placing a protectivewrapper around a plant comprising, a holder for the wrapper, anadjustable catch piece, and foot pieces carried by said catch piece forengaging the wrapper, said catch piece being longer than the holderwhereby the foot pieces may be projected below the holder.

2. A device for placing a. protective wrapper around a plant comprising,a holder for the wrapper, an adjustable catch piece, a hand piece onsaid piece, and foot pieces carried by said catch piece for engaging thewrapper, said catch piece being longer than the holder whereby the footpieces may be projected below the holder.

A device for placing a protective wrapper around a plant comprising aholder for the wrapper, an adjustable catch piece, and 15 angularly bentfoot pieces, carried by said catch piece for engaging the wrapper, saidcatch piece being longer than the holder whereby the foot pieces may beprojected below the holder. 20

Signed at Winnipeg, this 4th day of June, 1915.

HENRY ADOLPHUS GIBSON. In the presence of G. S. ROXBURGH, S. SILVERT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

